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" Whatever alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can never be sustained, unless the House of Commons shall be made to bear some stamp of the. actual disposition of the people at large. "
The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar ... - Page 399
by Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...legislature. Whatever the alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can never be sustained, unless the...the House of Commons should be infected with every epidemical frenzy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature...
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Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament

John Uhr - 1998 - 292 pages
...kind of standing jury on executive power, reflecting the interests of the people by virtue of having 'some stamp of the actual disposition of the people at large'. It is more tolerable for the popular agency of parliament to reflect 'every epidemical frenzy of the people'...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...legislature. Whatever the alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can never be sustained, unless the...the House of Commons should be infected with every epidemical frenzy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 pages
...legislature. Whatever alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced,. this character can never be sustained, unless the...natural and tolerable, that the House of Commons should bo infected with every epidemical frenzy of the people, as this would indicate, some consanguinity,...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 pages
...legislature. Whatever alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, .this character can never be sustained, unless the...natural and tolerable, that the House of Commons should bo infected with every epidemical frenzy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity,...
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The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 36

Great Britain. Parliament - 1817 - 822 pages
...life :— " Whatever alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can never be sustained, unless the...the House of Commons should be infected with every epidemical phrenzy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature...
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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Edmund Burke - 1913 - 220 pages
...legislature. Whatever alterations time and the necessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can never be sustained, unless the...disposition of the people at large. It would (among publick misfortunes) be an evil more natural and tolerable, that the house of commons should be infected...
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The Liberal Magazine, Volume 13

1906 - 828 pages
...which may be added a passage from Burke's " Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents " : — "It would (among public misfortunes) be an evil more...the House of Commons should be infected with every epidemical phrensy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature...
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Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 13

1818 - 482 pages
...alterations time and the iwcessary accommodation of business may have introduced, this character can nev.-r be sustained, unless the house of commons shall be made to bear some he adding to its honesty — who saw this once happy 'stamp of the actual disposition of the people...
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